On Sunday, 15th September, 1963, a white man was seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car and placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Soon afterwards, at 10.22 a.m., the bomb exploded killing Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). The four girls had been attending Sunday school classes at the church. Twenty-three other people were also hurt by the blast. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAC16.htm
IV. Date and Place
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
Sunday, 15th September 1963
I. Artifact Name
Torn Little Girl's Dress from the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
II. Image
III. Significance of Event
The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham was used as a meeting-place for civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy and Fred Shutterworth. Tensions became high when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) became involved in a campaign to register African American to vote in Birmingham.On Sunday, 15th September, 1963, a white man was seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car and placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Soon afterwards, at 10.22 a.m., the bomb exploded killing Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). The four girls had been attending Sunday school classes at the church. Twenty-three other people were also hurt by the blast.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAC16.htm
IV. Date and Place
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AlabamaSunday, 15th September 1963
V. Multimedia Found on the Internet
VII. Map
VIII. Curators
Randy MillarKathi Whitfield